Every now and then -- no, make that most of the time -- I have difficulty producing good shots for this blog. You see, I usually cook for dinner and dinner happens, well, at night. The lighting isn't really the best, and I'm not (yet) very familiar with the flash settings of my cam. Add to that the fatigue from really long days... the picture above is an example of one of my wanting shots.
Ginataang Santol. Would you call it exotic? When I was 14 we had some visiting seminarians over for lunch and my lola served this dish. One of our guests asked what it was (he had trouble placing the taste) and I jokingly answered, "Ginataang Cactus." He looked so bewildered -- his tongue was saying it was good and okay, but his mind was telling him otherwise, so I told him right away it was santol before he could barf and ruin lunch for the rest of us. :)
Santol isn't exactly the stuff your usual ulam is made of. If you like some excitement and tang in your ulam I bet you'd like this, paired with crispy fried fish (tilapia, galunggong...) And I'm proud to say I'm the first ever (half) Bicolana to post it! Yay! Now would you be the first non-Bicolanos to cook it? :)
The recipe is how I recall it from weekends watching my lola's cooking.
GINATAANG SANTOL
What's In It?
3-4 pcs. Santol
4 cups coconut milk
1 scallion/onion, peeled and sliced
5 cloves garlic, peeled and minced
3 teaspoons salt or 3 teaspoons raw bagoong alamang
3-5 pcs. siling labuyo
Kitchen Conjugations:
Peel santol. Cut in halves, remove the seeds and set aside. Dice pulp. Sprinkle about 1/2 teaspoon salt over the diced santol, mix then pick up handfuls of the diced pulp and squeeze to remove some of the juice. (This is so the dish does not go sour beyond edibility. Hahaha.)
In a deep pan heat coconut milk, onions and garlic, stirring every now and then to avoid curdling. When the mixture boils, add in santol and salt (or alamang). Continue stirring slowly until the mixture boils. Add in siling labuyo and let the mix simmer until the coco milk is thick and reduced, about 15 minutes.
Serve with steamed rice and fried fish.
8 comments:
i like this dish
it would be a better if you will grate the santol. it is good with skyflakes! wow!
hi, new to the site, thanks.
Yes, I have tasted this recipe when I was still working at Legaspi, Albay. This recipe tastes great and yes, it was grated.
Original recipe is diced not grated. This is my fave. We usually pair it with Paksiw and hot rice..no need to warm it up..serve it cold from the fridge..it will get warm with the rice..LOL!! To die for!
The first time I tasted it was in 2008 when I went to Bicol. I've tasted different styles (saucy and dry). Since then I've been drooling to taste it again! I was only last night (4 long years!!!) that my friend from Legazpi cooked and brought this favorite dish for me and I'm in heaven again! I like the dry one with giniling and tinapa, yung medyo tuyo na yung gata at nagmamantika na, mmmm!!! Grabe!!! That's why I landed on this site searching for the recipe. I want to cook it myself lest I'll wait for another four freaking years just to taste it again!!! Thanks!
my husband like this recepe and i like it too......so yummy and dilicious recepe
thank,s for the recepe my husband like this recepe and i like it too.....so yummy
Post a Comment